With U.S., British, and Afghan forces launching a huge offensive in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Dick Cheney is invited on ABC’s This Week to further politicize our national security. This is why he should have been probed by an Independent Investigator and discredited completely. He’s a criminal. Everyone knows he’s a criminal and no one wants to do anything about it. So, he’s free to mouth off and cause division with his lies and paranoia and disrespect for the rule of law and human rights. It’s pathetic.
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And who do we have to thank for that?
Multiple people.
The Supreme Court…the American people…
But let’s just say, Barack Obama.
The only good that can come from this is if the guest host verbally assaults Cheney with a suitcase full of his lies and illogical conclusions about “security”. Who’s filling in for lil Georgie? Oh, Jonathan Karl. Never mind.
And in the meantime, the Americans are “taking the city back”. From whom? Why, from Afghans, of course. “Taking an Afghan city back” from Afghans, just as they “took the Iraqi city of Falluja back” from Iraqis. Oh wait, in order to “take the Iraqi city of Falluja back” from Iraqis, they utterly destroyed it and made it virtually uninhabitable by Iraqis.
The logic of empire is stunning.
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British, Danish and Afghan troops took the Taliban totally by surprise last week in a daring operation launched into the heart of the enemy stronghold of Marjah in central Helmand.
The 700-strong force arrived by RAF Chinook and Royal Navy Sea King helicopters, Viking armoured vehicles, Leopard tanks, and on foot, and achieved total surprise in the latest phase of Operation AABI TOORAH (‘Blue Sword’).
Lieutenant Colonel Al Lister Royal Marines, Chief of Operations for Task Force Helmand, summed up the success of this phase, saying:
“This was a very successful, deliberate joint operation that demonstrated clearly to the enemy that the Task Force continues to operate where and when it chooses. Marjah has previously been a safe haven for the enemy; we have shattered that illusion and more will follow.”
Marjah has long been a region that the insurgents claimed as their heartland, a place they felt secure and where they could gather, equip and train their forces. It was also where they moved and stored weapons and explosives, and where the links between the insurgents and narcotics trade have been at their strongest.
[Oops, that was March 26, 2009 … this operation with 15,000 troops with intention to stay and let the Marjah region be governed with support from Kabul]
Governance is at the forefront of Operation “Together”
Fallujah? Wasn’t that a revenge attack for the deaths of 4 Blackwater guards using urban warfare tactics.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Nice catch.
Nevermind, they are now taking the Afghan city of Marjah back from the Afghans – again.
He should be Gang Probed…
This is what happens when we “look forward, not back” and other Oprahish bullshit. It’s otherwise known as unilateral disarmament in the middle of a war.